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# Kamasutra 5.4.50

Kāmasūtra 5.4.50

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [5.4.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.5.4.50)

kāryaikadeśam abhiyogaikadeśaṃ copalabhya śeṣaṃ saṃpādayatīti parimitārthā//

> (2) A go-between who, perceiving that some part of the affair is already done, or that the advances on the part of the man are already made, completes the rest of the business is called a go-between who performs only a limited part of the business.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

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## Translations (1)

- [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.5.4.p24) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.32.49) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.5.4.50) — Sanskrit

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